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1. We had a birthday for this lovely 14 year old girl.  Her choice of  homemade Key* Lime Pie was very delish.  ( The majority of our kids don't "do" cake.)

*technically Costco Lime Pie.

2. Reb has been very sick.  Days of fever, no sleep at night and general malaise.  When her fever peaked at 104.5 Monday afternoon, I finally got scared enough to take her to the Doctor.  Turns out it was a double ear infection.  Finally, just yesterday, she started to feel better.  Yay.

3.  The birthday girl had a bit of a tumble this week.  The usual gang of kids was playing basketball in our driveway on Tuesday.  There happened to be a few spots covered in ice.  Birthday girl slipped on the ice.  But don't worry, she stopped her fall.  With her face.  She now, unfortunately looks like W.C. Fields.

Her nose took the brunt of the fall.  It swelled up about 4 times it's usual size and half of the skin was scraped off.  Today the swelling is down considerably but the skin is scabbing over.  Just the kind of look an 8th grade girl loves.  She said she spent the entire day at school yesterday answering the question, "WHAT happened to your face!?!?"  Awesome.

4.  I've been sick too.  I'm pretty sure a small army of Oompa Loompa's set up camp somewhere deep inside my cranium.  They've all set up big puffy tents and are camping out all week.   They're using my throat for target practice and my nose for a disposal.  They're using the divide and conquer method, and so far they're winning.

5.  Facebook is weird.

6. Happy Valentines weekend.